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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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Israel
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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